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California Bolsters Firefighting Capabilities with High-Tech Resources and a Record $3.8 Billion Budget on LA Fire Anniversary

California enhances wildfire prevention and response, including new fire engines, LiDAR mapping, upgraded aerial fleet, and ...

L.A. City ignored fire safety as it permitted development in high risk areas, lawsuit alleges

A lawsuit filed Dec. 23 provides 75 examples of building plans seemingly in violation of fire safety regulations designed to ...

Which City Burns Next?

Then came the next generation of disasters: the Tubbs fire in Santa Rosa, Calif., in 2017 and the Camp fire in Paradise, ...
NBC Los Angeles on MSN

Palisades and Eaton Fires: Devastation to Determination

As the communities of Altadena and the Palisades continue to recover and rebuild one year after the deadly January 2025 ...
City JournalOpinion

Firefighters Could Have Prevented the L.A. Wildfires, but California Rules Made Them Save Plants Instead

The L.A. Department of Water and Power had kept the nearby Santa Ynez Reservoir empty for nearly a year, contributing to dry ...

Who is Edwin Castro? About $2.04 billion Powerball winner in California

In 2022, Edwin Castro became biggest lottery winner ever with $2.04 billion Powerball. 2 years later, California wildfires ...
Fix It Homestead on MSN

The homeowner question to ask before Jan 1 if your policy can carve out wildfire coverage

Wildfire season no longer feels like a season at all, and that shift is quietly rewriting the fine print on homeowners ...
Chico Enterprise-Record on MSN

No shortage of flames or fallout in a year that — for a change — didn’t have a major fire

If Butte County’s 2025 could be summed up in one word, well, it couldn’t. As with almost every year the headlines ebb and ...

A year later, Altadena fire survivors confront hard choices about housing

ALTADENA, Calif. - Nearly a year ago, wildfire swallowed this quiet town in the foothills of Los Angeles, killing 19 people, ...

After the ashes: A Palisades resident’s life in decimated LA enclave one year after deadly wildfires

Forty-year Pacific Palisades resident Jimmy Dunne describes life in the decimated LA neighborhood one year after it was ...
Redding Record Searchlight

Cal Fire sues Shasta man for sending Pit River water to his pond

The lawsuit alleges Guiliano Borgna made a ditch from the Pit River across Cal Fire property to a storage pond on his land. He denies digging the ditch. Cal Fire is seeking an injunction to stop the ...